The retail services vertical is expected to spend $10.9 billion on telecom services by 2005. While relatively, the retail services vertical is seeing slower growth, overall telecom spending is expected to see promising opportunity for vertical market campaigns. The need to implement CRM, ERP, Inventory Management, and POS systems requires the use of advanced telephony and at increasing bandwidth and network requirements. Because there is a high amount of dependency on the retail networks for these new technologies, the retail sector is one vertical showing tremendous opportunity for service providers and carriers offering wireline and wireless services.

The retail services vertical is expected to spend $10.9 billion on telecom services by 2005. While relatively, the retail services vertical is seeing slower growth, overall telecom spending is expected to see promising opportunity for vertical market campaigns. The need to implement CRM, ERP, Inventory Management, and POS systems requires the use of advanced telephony and at increasing bandwidth and network requirements. Because there is a high amount of dependency on the retail networks for these new technologies, the retail sector is one vertical showing tremendous opportunity for service providers and carriers offering wireline and wireless services. Read Less